Motion to Compel, Arbitration Agreements

Broad Federal Policy Favors Arbitration Agreements, Can Extend to Non-Parties

by Kenneth Vanko | Clingen Callow & McLean, LLC on 2/25/2013

With the Supreme Court last year strengthening the case for the arbitratrion of non-compete disputes, count me in as one who is fairly confident we're going to see businesses utilizing such clauses more in employment and...more

Non-Signatories Lose In Two Federal Circuits When Trying To Enforce Arbitration

by Liz Kramer | Leonard, Street and Deinard - Arbitration... on 2/22/2013

Two federal circuit courts recently reversed district court decisions allowing non-signatories to compel arbitration. The analysis emphasizes that for a defendant to prove equitable estoppel compels arbitration, the...more

What Happens When Some Investors Agree To Arbitration But Others Don’t?

by Keith Paul Bishop | Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis... on 2/12/2013

Arbitration continues to be a hot topic for the courts. See Achilles’ Shield And Judicial Review Of Arbitration Awards and U.S. Supreme Court Holds That State Courts Must Not Assume The Arbitrator’s Role By Declaring...more

Some Class-Action Waiver Clauses Continue to be Held Unenforceable, Even After Concepcion

by Christopher M P Jackson | Cohen & Gresser LLP on 2/6/2013

In a decision dated January 7, 2013, the California Court of Appeal invalidated a mandatory arbitration and class action waiver clause in an automobile sales contract, ruling that the arbitration clause was unconscionable and...more

Abstention Trumps Arbitration In Tenth Circuit

by Liz Kramer | Leonard, Street and Deinard - Arbitration... on 1/17/2013

The Tenth Circuit this week refused to consider a plaintiff’s substantive arguments about its right to arbitrate because it found abstention was appropriate under the Colorado River doctrine. D.A. Osguthorpe Family P’ship v....more

Compelled Arbitration Of Dispute between Homeowners Associations Upheld

by Schecter Law on 1/14/2013

In Ibis Lakes Homeowners Ass'n, Inc. v. Ibis Isle Homeowners Ass'n, Inc., 4D12-1273 (Fla. 4th DCA, Dec. 12, 2012), Ibis Lakes Homeowners Association, Inc. (“Plaintiff”) sought review of a non-final order of the trial court...more

Reinsurance Redux - December 2012

by Braden A. Borger, Andrea P. Brockway, Amy S. Kline, Sean T. O'Neill, Caitlin M. Piccarello | Saul Ewing LLP on 12/18/2012

In This Issue: - Southern District of New York Orders Arbitration Panel to Proceed with Umpire Selection: Finding the Federal Arbitration Act mandates that a provision in a reinsurance agreement establishing a...more

To Compel Under the FAA or the MAA? That Is The Question

by Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/9/2012

Often, when a plaintiff files a lawsuit, there’s an arbitration agreement somewhere in his or her personnel file. And, unbeknownst to the plaintiff’s counsel, the claims brought actually should be arbitrated—not litigated....more

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